Benjamin Moll

Benjamin Moll

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in August 2025

Research area
Macroeconomics

About Benjamin Moll

Benjamin Moll is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a macroeconomist studying how the enormous heterogeneity observed at the micro level, and in particular the large disparities in income and wealth, impact the macro economy and macroeconomic policy. Moll’s work analyzes the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of monetary and fiscal policy as well as disruptions like the Covid-19 pandemic or the European energy crisis. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Moll is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the recipient of the Bernácer Prize for best European economist under 40 working in macroeconomics and finance, the Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics, and a coeditor of the American Economic Review.